BM 12 PT 1 - Activity Sheet
BM 12 PT 1 - Activity Sheet
BM 12 PT 1 - Activity Sheet
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Learning Standards
Task Requirements
In fulfilling the task, you will need the following:
● data about your household’s expenses in a month; and
● prices of these goods and services.
Goal
The goal is to apply the operations on fractions, decimals, and percentages in real life.
Role
You are the budget keeper of the household. Your tasks are to monitor the household's
expenses, to examine your spending habits, and to determine how you can minimize your
costs and increase your savings.
Audience
You must convince your household members and other households of a strategy to
minimize expenses and increase savings through budgeting.
Situation
The context is that your household wants to know if there are ways to increase savings and
minimize your expenses. You were tasked to analyze the spending patterns and propose
ways to achieve the goal. You must list the things you usually consume at home, categorize
them, and show how much funds were used on these. You may also compare the prices of
different brands, supermarkets, wet markets, or online stores. What is your strategy to limit
expenses and increase your savings upon analyzing the data? Convince the household
members of the benefits of your proposal by showing the numbers in decimals, fractions,
and percentages.
Product
An analysis of the current household cost and expenses, a budget and strategy to increase
savings, and expected results that are supported by mathematical data.
Standards
The rubric below is a suggested one. Your teacher may modify it based on your needs.
Consult your teacher for the final rubric.
Performance Levels
Criteria Suggested
1 2 3 4 Score
Weight
Beginning Developing Average Advanced
Proficiency Proficiency Proficiency Proficiency
Authenticity The data The data The data The data provided
of data provided are provided are provided are are authentic and
inauthentic and somewhat authentic and excellently reflect
do not reflect authentic and sufficiently situations and
situations and fairly reflect reflect situations scenarios that
scenarios that situations and and scenarios happen in real life.
happen in real scenarios that that happen in There were no ×3
life. There were 5 happen in real real life. There issues identified in
or more issues life. There were were 1-2 issues the data.
identified in the 3-4 issues identified in the
data. identified in the data.
data.